RE: [PATCH v1 0/2] Fix the wrong order of phy callbacks

[Hongxing Zhu <hongxing.zhu@nxp.com>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ahmad Fatoum <a.fatoum@pengutronix.de>
> Sent: 2022年8月30日 15:16
> To: Hongxing Zhu <hongxing.zhu@nxp.com>; l.stach@pengutronix.de;
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> Subject: Re: [PATCH v1 0/2] Fix the wrong order of phy callbacks
> 
> Hello Richard,
> 
> On 30.08.22 05:47, Hongxing Zhu wrote:
> >>> [PATCH v1 1/2] PCI: imx6: Fix the wrong order of phy_init() and
> >>> [PATCH
> >>> v1 2/2] phy: freescale: imx8m-pcie: Fix the wrong order of
> >>
> >> This introduces an intermittent breakage. Can you squash?
> >
> > Hi Ahmad:
> > Thanks for your comments.
> > Do you mean to squash this fix to the preview series?
> > I'm afraid that it's not easy to do that.
> > Because there are a lot of pci-imx6 code changes after
> > commit: 1aa97b002258 ("phy: freescale: pcie: Initialize the imx8 pcie
> standalone phy driver").
> 
> The way I understand it, if a bisect ends up between your two patches, i.MX8M
> PCIe will be broken, whereas it worked before. I thus wonder if we shouldn't
> instead squash this series here into a single patch.
Yes, it's a possible case when do the bisect.
Since these changes are belong to different git repo.
It will bring maintain difficulties if these two patches are squashed into a
 single one.
It's difficult to make a choice.

Best Regards
Richard Zhu
> 
> Cheers,
> Ahmad
> 
> 
> >
> > Best Regards
> > Richard Zhu
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